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SI:AM | Another Day Jam-Packed With Playoff Baseball

After the wild-card appetizer, the ALDS and NLDS get started on Tuesday.

Sports Illustrated

‘He’s like one of the great ones’: Why Braves trust Game 1 starter Max Fried

Once a young arm on an up-and-coming team, Max Fried is now one of baseball’s true aces, someone whose reputation as a big-game pitcher is acknowledged throughout the sport.

Tribune News Service

Aaron Boone never wavered after naming Gerrit Cole Game 1 starter weeks ago: ‘I feel like he’s throwing the ball incredibly well’

This was the idea when they signed him. Gerrit Cole in Game 1 of the playoffs in front of a packed house at Yankee Stadium. It took until his third season in pinstripes, because of COVID among other things. So the right-handed ace was given the “honor” of pitching the…

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David Murphy: Phillies face long odds in NLDS, but four key stats show how they can beat the Braves

ATLANTA — The Braves are not the Cardinals. If the uniforms didn’t give it away, just look at the matchups. There’s a reason the Phillies will enter Game 1 of the National League Division Series as heavy underdogs to reach their first National League Championship Series since that brutal loss…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Phillies sweep Cardinals behind Aaron Nola; Braves up next in NLDS

ST. LOUIS — About three minutes before the first pitch of Game 1 of the National League wild-card series on Friday, Phillies broadcaster Scott Franzke leaned into his microphone and said it best, as he often does.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

A Series of Unfortunate Decisions

The Cardinals absolutely crumbled in the ninth inning yesterday. There’s no other way to explain how they went from up two with two outs to go for a win, to down four and having to bat in the bottom of the ninth. Closer Ryan Helsley, who was called upon to…

Sports Illustrated

Mets Only Have Themselves to Blame for Starting Pitching Debacle

New York tried to get cute with its first three starters. Now, it’s one loss away from a more than promising season ending in heartbreak.

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The Ninth Inning From Hell

The Cardinals were two outs from a Game 1 win when everything fell apart.

Sports Illustrated

Mariners shut out Blue Jays in Game 1 behind Luis Castillo’s stellar outing

TORONTO — After striking out the side in the seventh inning in his seemingly effortless fashion, whipping triple-digit fastballs with terrifying movement past hitters, freezing them with knee-buckling sliders and mixing in a few shake-your-head change-ups just because he could, Luis Castillo flashed a grin, removing his hat and offering…

Tribune News Service

Phillies score six in ninth to beat Cardinals, 6-3, in Game 1 of wild-card series

ST. LOUIS — Jean Segura wasn’t even halfway down the first-base line when he leaped in the air, looking more like Mikhail Baryshnikov than the player who delivered a game-winning hit in the Phillies’ first playoff game in 11 years.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

San Diego Padres vs. New York Mets, live stream, TV channel, time, how to watch MLB Playoffs

The San Diego Padres will meet the New York Mets in the best-of-three NL Wild Card with Game 1 on Friday afternoon from Citi Field.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Seattle Mariners vs. Toronto Blue Jays, live stream, TV channel, time, how to watch MLB Playoffs

The Seattle Mariners will meet the Toronto Blue Jays in the best-of-three AL Wild Card with Game 1 on Friday from the Rogers Centre.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Philadelphia Phillies vs. St. Louis Cardinals, live stream, TV channel, time, how to watch MLB Playoffs

The Philadelphia Phillies will meet the St. Louis Cardinals in the best-of-three NL Wild Card with Game 1 on Friday afternoon.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Tampa Bay Rays vs. Cleveland Guardians, live stream, TV channel, time, how to watch MLB Playoffs

The Tampa Bay Rays will meet the Cleveland Guardians in the best-of-three AL Wild Card with Game 1 on Friday afternoon.

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Los Angeles Times

Who will start Game 1 of the NLDS? Dodgers say give it a rest.

LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday night, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Julio Urías would get his vote for the National League Cy Young Award.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Phillies fall to Astros in playoff tune-up, but Nick Maton has a laugh

HOUSTON — The Phillies barely had anything to play for on Tuesday, and after it became official that they would face the Cardinals on Friday in an NL wild-card series, they had even less to play for in Game 162 on Wednesday. The Astros clinched their playoff spot on Sept.…

Newsday

Mets beat Nationals in doubleheader opener, but Atlanta claims division with win in Miami

NEW YORK — The Mets left Georgia last weekend knowing full well they lost the opportunity to control their own fate, so when the out-of-town scoreboard read “FINAL” Tuesday night, there was little solace in the fact that the offense that deserted them against Atlanta was now clicking smoothly against…

USA Today Sports Media Group

Kobe Bryant’s top 100 games: No. 3

In Game 1 of the 2001 WCF versus the Spurs, Kobe Bryant made it painfully clear that he was the NBA's newest megastar.

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Kobe Bryant’s top 100 games: No. 29

Kobe Bryant made sure to set the right tone against the Celtics in Game 1 of the 2010 NBA Finals.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Cardinals' Dakota Hudson sets pace, sends message with Game 1 win vs. Reds

St. LOUIS — The Dakota Hudson who emerged Saturday from a brief reboot in the minors, where he could hear the tick-tock of a clock to accelerate his pace, is exactly the Dakota Hudson who the Cardinals could find a role for in October.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Kobe Bryant’s top 100 games: No. 49

After the Lakers fell behind by 20 in Game 1 of the 2008 WCF, Kobe Bryant went off and handed the Spurs a very painful loss.

Al Jazeera

Michael Jordan’s 1998 NBA Finals jersey sells for record $10.1M

Basketball jersey from Jordan’s famed ‘Last Dance’ season with the Chicago Bulls sets record for game-worn memorabilia.

Tribune News Service

Five takeaways from the first two games of WNBA Finals between the Sun and Aces

HARTFORD, Conn. — The Connecticut Sun knew they were the underdogs entering the WNBA Finals against the Las Vegas Aces, but they were confident in their ability to prove everyone wrong after doing just that in the semifinals against Chicago.

Sports Illustrated

Aces Rediscover Their Offensive Prowess in Game 2 Win Over Sun

A statement game from Kelsey Plum and early returns in the paint ignited a Las Vegas offense that was stymied in Game 1.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Kobe Bryant’s top 100 games: No. 60

Kobe Bryant set the tone for the 2010 Western Conference finals versus the Suns with 40 points in a Game 1 Lakers blowout.

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